"This is the gaming equivalent of cooking a large, delicious, yet unadventurous evening meal," old man Jim Rossignol concluded in our Anno 1404 review back in 2009. Most of these predate RPS but we've snook a look or two. Related Designs made Annos 17 in the first place, having taken over from creators Max Design after 16. Ubisoft Mainz, originally known as Related Designs, are working on these new versions. The whole collection will only be on Uplay. Then Anno 1404 History Edition will be sold on Uplay, the Epic Games Store, and Steam. Anno 1701's revamp will be available on Uplay and the Epic Games Store.
The new History Editions of Anno 1602 and Anno 1503 will only be sold on Uplay. Manage cookie settingsīecause Ubisoft can't resist dicking about, different games will be available on different stores. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Surprisingly, they say saves from the original versions will be compatible with the new. Anno 1503 didn't have proper multiplayer before, and now it will. Ubisoft explain that the new 'History Edition' of each game will support resolutions up to 4k, improve multiplayer running through Uplay with new features including matchmaking and desync recovery, bring them into 64-bit to shake off performance and stability problems like Anno 1404 running out of memory, and wham in the expansions and that. The Anno History Collection will bring new versions of Anno 1602, Anno 1503, Anno 1701, and Anno 1404 will newfangled fanciness including 4K resolutions and multiplayer matchmaking, all while preserving save compatibility.
Nothing changed anything.Ubisoft today announced revamped rereleases of four vintage games from the colony-building strat-o-sim series Anno, due in June. I tried image mode, I deinstalled all virtual cd drives (the XP Computer never had one anyway), I tried to restrict everything to one CPU, I tried the original version of the game and the newest patch, I started the game from the DVD with gamejackal watching a few more times. I tried two different computers with very differing hardware. Summary.log from the XP and vista computer are attached. The game always requests the original DVD (Full Message (german): "Bitte legen Sie die "Anno 1701"-DVD ein!")ġ2. Profile creation finishes without problems, but the profile doesn't work. The XP Computer is running avast! 4.8 Home Edition virus scanner (was disabled during the profile creation process), the Vista computer runs Avira AntiVir Personal Edition 8.2.0.337 (also disabled during profile creation).ġ1. Optical Drives: Plextor PX608CU USB2.0 DVD Burner and Teac DV-516D DVD Reader (no writer), don't know about the firmawares, I haven't touched them.ġ0. I tried restricting the game to one core, no change.ĩ. CPUs: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ 2.5Ghz and Intel Core i7 965 3.2Ghz (4 Cores). I've even installed the game on English and patched it to 1.04 but it did not make a change.
Anyway yeah I patched the game to version 1.02 (1.04 is not available in spanish therefore I can't install it because it throws a language error).
I tried the original version from the DVD and the newest patch 1.04, no change.Ĩ. First of all, that first link corresponds to Anno 1404, not 1701 A.D. A scan of the CD only finds the TagesSetup files.)ĥ. Click to expand.(D:\Spiele\Anno 1701\ is the install directory of the game.